On Monday, Svartholm was deported from Cambodia, and on Tuesday (today) he arrived in Sweden, where he was arrested for an unknown crime. After landing at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport, Svartholm was taken into custody at the city’s central police station.

Yet it turns out that his copyright sentence might not be what he was charged with when he arrived back home today. We don’t know the official details, but rumor has it that The Pirate Bay has nothing to do with it, at least on paper.

“I’m upset that it’s been lies from the Swedish foreign ministry all along about why Gottfrid was kidnapped,” former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde told TorrentFreak. “They have said all along that [Gottfrid’s arrest] was about the TPB case, yet the first people who greeted him [on landing in Sweden] were police handing him a charge. We all know this was why they’ve been asking questions about Gottfrid even before he appeared on the [Interpol] wanted list. It’s quite insane that just the past year there’s been two people associated with WikiLeaks on the Interpol wanted list. Two people – so far.”

Aside from copyright infringement, and a WikiLeaks connection (one of Svartholm’s companies helped host the company whistleblower site a few years ago), Gottfrid may be being held for hacking. More specifically, Logica, a Swedish IT company with ties to the country’s tax office, was the target of a breach earlier this year, affecting 9,000 Swedish people. A report from The Wall Street Journal also confirms the tax hack connection; the fresh allegations were published today on a website belonging to Swedish prosecutors, and confirmed with a spokesman.

Gottfrid was questioned at the airport, where his mother Kristina Svartholm reportedly tried to meet him but was denied access by the Swedish authorities, and his lawyer Ola Salomonsson was not present. Assuming he had legal representation, it would have been chosen by the Swedish government.

Emil was a reporter for The Next Web between 2012 and 2014. Over the years, he has covered the tech industry for multiple publications, including Ars Technica, Neowin, TechSpot, ZDNet, and CNET. Stay in touch via Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.